Obama Surveys Storm Damage, Oh Glory
Obama tours the tornado devastation in Missouri. (God bless America.)
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Parting Shot From Israel Week
With pics like this on the wire coming away from his encounter with the Israel lobby, I'm sure the White House is now feeling better about the Netanyahu dust-up.
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White House Flickr: The Finger
And then, talking about petty visual putdowns by the WH where Netanyahu is concerned....
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Obama, the Egyptian
I remember Afsaneh, quite matter-of-factly pointing to the portrait of Obama and asking: "You know what this photo is showing, don't you?"
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Framing Osama (and Obama)
If the point here is that bin Laden was overly scripted -- as well as overly concerned with his image, given the fact his beard is jet black while in other time-related pics and vids it is grey -- I give the DoD and the White House about a...
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Thursday at Ground Zero: The Prideful Left Behind by the Modest
Obama -- mindful of a need to recognize the "first responders" and the victim's families -- has actually took a very low key approach to Ground Zero and the death of Osama bin Laden.
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The Birther-tificate
Anyway, given the 12% of the population of The U-nit-ed States of A-merica that the release of this document is totally wasted on, I can imagine them doing their carnival thing with any one of these points.
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Obama Meets Facebook
I’m fascinated with Wednesday’s photos from Palo Alto and what’s going on with the two brands. On the one hand, it seems that Zuckerberg and Facebook subsume Obama, reducing the President to, yeah, just another face on FB. On the other hand, if Facebook is “all that” right now,...
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Birther Bait (or: Let Campaign '12 Begin!)
If the upcoming NYT Mag article on Obama’s mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, is deeply researched and nuanced, I’m afraid the newly uncovered family photo accompanying it will be all-too-happily greeted by birthers eager to equate the President to a Somali pirate. Of course, the Hawaiian photo appears just a day...
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Obama: Playing Both Sides Against the Middle?
Looking at this picture, it's vintage Obama. But then, whether it indicates him trying to have it both ways, splitting the difference or more shrewdly "playing both sides against the middle," I can't really say.
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Budget Lock Up: America Held Hostage
I imagine this photo would appeal most right now to everyone in the "pox on both their houses" school.
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Obama: Too Much TV?
A critic could say that the President and his people have been watching too much TV, or have been too quick to engage Gaddafi because of the powerful imagery of the Middle East uprising.
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Libya and The Obama Doctrine
This AP shot is actually pretty clever in the way it captures Obama's philosophy above a sea of tough looking faces.
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Obama vs. Gaddafi: Who’s A Head?
If this picture caught the imagination of photo editors — the souvenir hung on a destroyed government tank by the Libyan rebels following a coalition airstrike — it might have a greater symbolic significance. Now that Obama has stuck his neck out — not just to bolster the Libyan insurgency...
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Team Obama: Campaign Underway in a Purple (+ Corporate) State of Mind
The most telling element, though -- no accident, because really, it's a telegraph -- is the display of purple, or blue-and-purple ties (especially on the Carney, the new press guy and face of the Administration). Beyond the business profile, this new incarnation of Team Obama is about killing...
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